The Key Assumptions Check is a simple way to begin an intelligence analysis or research project. Despite its simplicity, it is also extremely powerful, because it allows us to question the underlying assumptions that we make influencing our decisions and thought processes. Because of confirmation bias, we often exclude information from our worldview or from…
Month: February 2015
The Nurses’ Global Assessment of Suicide Risk (NGASR)
New! This article has been updated August 9, 2016 to include more information about the scoring and links to useful tools to accompany. The Nurses’ Global Assessment of Suicide Risk (NGASR) is a tool that nurses can utilize to assess for suicide risk in a clinical, inpatient environment. The tool was originally developed to assist…
Assessing Elder Abuse with the Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE)
The purpose of the Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE) is to detect potential abuse of seniors by caregivers. It is a screening tool, not an assessment tool, so like other screening tools it should be administered to all caregivers whether abuse is suspected or not. The CASE tool was created by Myrna Reis and Daphne Nahmiash…
@RealTimeCrisis, Tweeting those in distress
A shorter post this Family Day, I thought I would take a few minutes to talk about the Twitter handle @RealTimeCrisis. Started by a Toronto police officer and a street nurse, they trawl Twitter for people demonstrating signs of lethality and reach out to them. As I’ve written about in the past on my article on…
5 Unconventional Ways to Market Your Helpline
Helplines are a strange beast: if their utilization is high, one can assume that either the community is really in need of their service and they deserve more money. On the other hand, if they are effective at diffusing crises, one might see their usage drop as fewer people in the community need them. Most helplines,…